Coach Killers, Week 3: Norv Turner Makes You Miss Martyball

Published: September 23, 2007, 8:00 pm

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Filed under: AZ Cardinals, Browns, Chargers, Falcons, LionsEvery week, NFL FanHouse hits the lowlights from Sunday's action, looking at those players who did the most to move their head coaches that much closer to returning to the Bed and Breakfast business.Norv Turner, Chargers Norvell is a masochist. There' s no other way to explain it. He's arguably one of the smartest offensive minds in football, yet give him a chance to run the whole operation and you can forget about it. I mean, this is the guy who served as Troy Aikman's mentor in Dallas, and helped 2005 first-overall pick Alex Smith come into his own last year. But in three head-coaching stops that span parts of 10 seasons, Turner is 59-84-1, including 1-2 start this season. Now if this is San Diego and it's 2000, a 1-2 start is cause for a parade (the '00 finished 1-15). But it's 2007 and the club is coming off a 14-2 effort. And effort, I might add, that got Marty Schottenheimer canned. And after San Diego's uninspired

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